[HPforGrownups] Summary - POA Chapters 3 and 4

[Margaret Dean]

No: HPFGUIDX 18367

Amber wrote:
> 
> --- Jim Flanagan <jamesf at alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:QUESTIONS
> > 1.  Was it a coincidence that the wand gesture that Harry made while
> > looking for the big dog was exactly what was needed to call the
> > Knight Bus?  Could the whole thing have been orchestrated by the MoM,
 > > or was this just a convenient Deus ex Machina for the
author?
> 
> I've always found that part a big dodgy. I mean, you just have to stick
> out your wand hand in a particular manner? Very vague, you'd think that
> the Knight Bus would get TONS of accident summons'. 

I suspect that you also have to be standing right next to a road,
as Harry was.  IIRC it's not mentioned in the text, but it makes
sense.


--Margaret Dean
  <margdean at erols.com>